Where does “hikitauti” come from?

hikitauti (Finnish) comes from Finnish tauti, from Proto-Finnic tauti, from Proto-Norse dauđi.

hikitauti (Finnish): sweating sickness, English sweat, sudor anglicus unidentified, highly virulent disease that caused series of epidemics in England and Europe between 1485 and 1551

Definitions

  1. sweating sickness, English sweat, sudor anglicus unidentified, highly virulent disease that caused series of epidemics in England and Europe between 1485 and 1551

Ancestry of “hikitauti”, step by step

hikitauti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tauti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtautidisease
2Proto-Finnictautidisease, sickness
3Proto-Norsedauđi—

via Finnish hiki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhikisweat, perspiration
2Proto-Finnichikisweat, perspiration
Every word from Proto-Norse dauđi →Every word from Proto-Finnic tauti →Every word from Finnish tauti →